During our August Spirit Week, PCHC is excited to announce our 2022 Employees of the Year! Each day from Aug. 8 – 12 – we will announce a batch of EOTYs from our locations and departments. On Friday, Aug. 12 we will announce our organization overall winners. Please check out our daily annoucements and writeups […]
BANGOR, Maine July 21—A generous grant from the Maine Cancer Foundation will support a new cervical screening program, making exams and pap smears—potentially life-saving procedures–readily available as part of primary care. Penobscot Community Health Care, which serves 60,000 Mainers, announced this week that the $100,000, two-year grant will support development of the program at four […]
Noah Nesin, M.D., longtime family doctor and former chief medical officer at Penobscot Community Health Care, was honored by the state of Maine this week for his work treating substance use disorder. Gov. Janet Mills, addressing the 2022 Opioid Response Summit, announced that the Governor’s Award would go to Nesin “in grateful appreciation” of his […]
Proving that the best community partners can pivot beautifully when circumstances change, Good Shepherd Food Bank didn’t bat an eye when it learned its grant for new refrigeration at Hope House Health and Living Center wouldn’t cover the whole cost of a new cooler. In February, Good Shepherd Food Bank awarded Hope House $29,000 for […]
JACKMAN, Maine July 1—An innovative project employing paramedics as urgent care providers—connected via telehealth to emergency room physicians 100 miles away—has launched successfully in one of Maine’s most remote communities. The federal grant-funded project has been up and running for about a month in this frontier community (pop. 823) less than 20 miles from the […]
PCHC provides comfortable, respectful, trauma-informed, and high-quality care to cisgender women, people assigned female at birth, trans men and trans women, non-binary people, intersex people, any person who is able to become pregnant, and people of all ages. Regardless of how our patients identify, we are here for ALL. Our providers have years of experience […]
Reproductive health care is a human right. Today’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade, which for 50 years was settled law protecting a woman’s constitutional right to abortion, jeopardizes the health and well-being of women in this country, threatens disproportionately the lives and health of low-income women and women of color, and marks a […]
Our friends at the Bangor Daily News ran a story about our Bangor School-Based Health Center, on Thursday, and spoke with Executive Division Director, Donna Neste about the need for increased access to care for our school children, and how PCHC is meeting that need. Check out the full article: In-school health care clinic will […]
On Thursday, August 25, we will be hosting a professional photographer at Auburn Hall (103 Maine Ave, Bangor ME), in the think tank. Please select one of the following times while including your name and email address. If you have any questions please reach out to Christopher.Hill@PCHC.com
The month of May is mental health awareness month and Executive Clinical Director for Psychotherapy, Colleen Owens joined us to talk about how all of us, no matter who we are or where we come from, deal with our mental health on a daily basis. Check out the video and the resources below to learn […]